Nassim () also transliterated as Nacim, Naseem, Nasseem, Nasim, Nesim or Nessim, is a unisex name meaning "gentle breeze, fresh air" . It is mostly used in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures and language groups. It may refer to:
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Nasim Sdn Bhd
Berjaya Auto Alliance, formerly known as Nasim Sdn Bhd (NSB), is a Malaysian automotive company. Founded in 1997 as Nasim, they become the sole importer and distributor for the Peugeot brand in Malaysia. On 9 June 2022, Nasim was sold to Berjay ...
, a member of Naza Group of Companies
People
Men
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Nacim Abdelali
Nacim Mustapha Abdelali, sometimes spelt Nassim Mustapha Abdelaali, (born 19 December 1981) is a French Association football, footballer. He currently plays for Yverdon-Sport FC in the 1. Liga Promotion.
On 28 February 2010, Abdelali made his l ...
(born 1981), Algerian footballer
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Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha
Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha GCMG (; June 30, 1871 – March 8, 1938) was an Egyptian political figure of Turkish origin. He served as the prime minister of Egypt between May 1920 and 1921, again from 1922 until 1923, and finally between 1934 an ...
(1871–1938), Egyptian politician
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Naseem Hijazi
Sharif Hussain (Urdu: ), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: , commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (19 May 1914 – 2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist.
Life and career
Hussain was born in an Arain family in th ...
(c. 1910–1996), Pakistani Urdu writer
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Mohammad Naseem
Mohammad Naseem, (; 6 September 1924 – 22 April 2014), was a British Muslim leader and political activist. Nassem worked as a GP before later becoming chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust ( Birmingham Central Mosque), one of the largest ...
(1924–2014), Pakistani-British doctor and politician
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Naseem Kharal
Naseem Ahmed Kharal () (June 29, 1939 – July 14, 1978) was a Sindhi people, Sindhi short story writer.Daily Dawn on July 15, 2003 He was born on June 29, 1939, in Kharalabad, Khairpur District of British India, what subsequently became Pakistan.
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(1939–1978), Pakistani short story writer
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Farogh Naseem
Mohammad Farogh Naseem () is a Pakistani politician and barrister who served as the Federal Minister of Law and Justice until 2 April 2022. He is serving as member of the Senate of Pakistan. He has previously served as Advocate General of Sin ...
(born 1969), Pakistani lawyer
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Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed (Arabic: نسيم حميد; born 12 February 1974), nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002.Davies, Gareth A (8 June 2015)"Prince Naseem Hamed: 'I always thought they w ...
(born 1974), Yemeni-British boxer
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Hassan Evan Naseem
Hassan Evan Naseem (; 1984 – 19 September 2003), commonly referred to as Evan Naseem, was a Maldivian man whose death became a lever for the current, open, political reform activities in the Maldives. He was serving a jail term at Maafushi ...
(1984–2003), Maldivian drug offender killed in jail
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Naqeebullah Mehsud
Naseemullah (Urdu/), better known as Muhammad Naqeebullah Mehsud (), was killed on 13 January 2018 in Karachi, Pakistan, during a fake encounter staged by the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Karachi's Malir District, Rao Anwar. On 3 J ...
(1991–2018), also known as "Naseem Ullah", a Pakistani national ethnic Pashtun who was killed in a fake police encounter
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Anwar Nasim
Anwar Nasim (born 7 December 1935) is a
Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim
Daya Shankar Kaul "Nasim" (1811 1845) was an Urdu
Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In Indi ...
(1811–1845), Urdu poet
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Nasim Amrohvi
Nasim Amrohvi or Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi (; (24 August 1908 – 28 February 1987) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer who was born as Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi on 24 August 1908 in Amroha, British India.
(1908–1987), Pakistani Urdu poet
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Nasim Ashraf
Nasim Ashraf () is a Pakistani-American social worker, physician, and former cricketer who had been the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board between 2006 and 2008.
He was also the Chairman of the National Commission for Human Development (N ...
, Pakistani politician and cricket administrator
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Nasim Khaksar
Nasim Khaksar is an Iranian writer. He fled Iran to live in the Netherlands.
Biography
Nasim was born on January 1, 1944, the southern city of Abadan. Upon receiving his teaching certification from colleges in Esfahan and Hamadan, he taught in ...
(born 1944), Iranian writer
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Nasim al-Safarjalani
Nassim () also transliterated as Nacim, Naseem, Nasseem, Nasim, Nesim or Nessim, is a unisex name meaning "gentle breeze, fresh air" . It is mostly used in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures and language groups. It may refer to:
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(1935–1994), Syrian politician
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Nasim-ul-Ghani
Nasim-ul-Ghani (born 14 May 1941) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 29 Test matches and one One Day International between 1958 and 1973. At the time of his debut, aged 16 years, he was the world's youngest Test player.Mohammad Nasim (Guantanamo captive 958) (born 1962), Afghan detainee
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Nasim Nisr Nasim Nisr (also spelled Nissim Nasser; ; ; born 1968), is a Lebanese and former Israeli citizen who was convicted of spying for Hezbollah.
Biography
Nisr was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother who converted to Islam aft ...
(born 1968), Lebanese-Israeli convicted of spying
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Nasim Khan (cricketer, born 1976)
Mohammad Nasim Khan (born 1 June 1976) is a Pakistani former cricketer. Khan was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Quetta, Balochistan Province. He is also known as Mohammad Naseem.
Having made his List A ...
(born 1976), Pakistani cricketer
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Mohammad Nasim Akhundzada
Mullah Mohammad Nasim Akhundzada (died 1990) was a mujahideen commander and Pashtun warlord who operated in Helmand Province, Afghanistan during the 1980s. Based out of Musa Qala in northern Helmand, Nasim was from the Alizai tribe. He issued a f ...
(died 1990), Afghan warlord
*Lieutenant General
Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim
Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim BB, psc (born 4 January 1946) is a former Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army. In 1996, he attempted a military coup of the caretaker government which was preparing for general elections. After failure of the c ...
(born 1943), former Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh Army
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Nasim Ahmed (cricketer)
Kalat was a first-class cricket team from the Pakistani city of Kalat in the north of Baluchistan province, about 150 kilometres south of Quetta. They had one season of first-class cricket in 1969–70, playing two matches in the Quaid-e-Azam Trop ...
, Pakistani cricketer
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Nasim Fekrat
Nasim Fekrat () is a Hazara journalist and blogger from Afghanistan who worked for various media outlets. He is a two-time winner of the freedom of expression awards; in 2005 from France Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) and in 2008 from ISF (Inf ...
, Afghan journalist
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Nasim Ur Rehman Haji Nasim Ur Rehman is an industrialist and politician from Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He is a member of the Awami National Party. In the 1997 general election for the National Assembly, he was elected as Member of Parliament ( ...
, Pakistani politician
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Mohammed Nasim
Mohammed Nasim (2 April 1948 – 13 June 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as Bangladesh's minister of home affairs and minister of health and family welfare during 1999–2001 and 2014–2019, respectively. He was a six ...
(1948–2020), Bangladesh politician
Nasimuddin
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Nasimuddin Amin
Sheikh Mohammad Nasimuddin Kamal bin Sheikh Mohamad Amin (27 January 1955 – 1 May 2008) was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the Naza Group of Malaysia.
Background
Nasimuddin was born to a Minangkabau ancestry. He was a ...
(1955–2008), Malaysian businessman
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Nassim Maalouf
Nassim Maalouf () (born 1941 in Kafarakab, Lebanon) is a classical trumpet soloist particularly known for his adaptation of the trumpet to Arabic music with the introduction of quarter tones on the instrument.
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Maalouf's brother is French-L ...
(born 1941). Lebanese trumpeter
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Nassim Soleimanpour
Nassim Soleimanpour (, born 10 December 1981) is an Iranian playwright. He is best known for his 2010 play ''White Rabbit Red Rabbit''.
Early life and education
Soleimanpour was born in Tehran, Iran.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, ...
(born 1960), Lebanese-American businessman and academic
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Nassim Akrour
Nassim Akrour (; born 10 July 1974) is a footballer and coach who currently plays for Chambéry and coaches the youth team at Annecy, whom he represented as a player between 2016 and 2019. Though born in France, he played for the Algeria nation ...
(born 1974), Algerian footballer
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Nassim Mendil
Nassim Mendil (born 27 March 1979) is a French Algerian former professional footballer who played striker.
Club career
Born in Rognac, France, Mendil began his career in the SC Bastia academy, which he joined at the age of 15. On 22 February ...
(born 1979), Algerian-French footballer
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Nassim Hamlaoui
Nassim Hamlaoui (born 25 February 1981) is an Algerian football midfielder. He last played for USM Annaba in the Algerian league.
Hamlaoui made one appearance for the Algeria national football team in 2004.
Honours
* Won the CAF Cup three times ...
(born 1981), Algerian footballer
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Nassim Oussalah
Nassim Oussalah (born 8 October 1981) is an Algerian former footballer who played primarily as a left-back.
Honours
* Won the Algerian League twice with JS Kabylie in 2006 and 2008
* Won the Algerian Cup once with JS Kabylie in 2011
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(born 1981), Algerian footballer
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Nassim Dehouche
Nassim Dehouche (born August 12, 1982) is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for MC El Eulma in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.
Honours
* Won the Algerian League once with JS Kabylie
Jeunesse Sportive de Kabyli ...
(born 1982), Algerian footballer
* Nassim Banouas (born 1986), Algerian-German footballer
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Nassim Boukmacha
''NASSIM'' is a seventy five minute play by Nassim Soleimanpour that features new actors with no rehearsals performing each day, a format similar to Soleimanpour's prior play, '' White Rabbit Red Rabbit''. When the actor opens the sealed envelope, ...
(born 1987), Algerian footballer
* Nassim Oudahmane (born 1987), Algerian footballer
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Nassim Ben Khalifa
Nassim Ben Khalifa (born 13 January 1992) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for the J1 League club Avispa Fukuoka.
Club career
Grasshoppers
Ben Khalifa started playing football with local team Nyon, Gland and Lausanne- ...
(born 1992), Tunisian-Swiss footballer
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Nesim Özgür
Nesim Özgür or Nesim Neshadov () (born 8 June 1973) is a former Turkish-Bulgarian footballer. He played for the Süper Lig clubs İstanbulspor, Trabzonspor, Malatyaspor and Bursaspor. He also played for Litex Lovech and Lokomotiv Plovdiv in hi ...
(born 1973), Turkish-Bulgarian footballer
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Nesim Tahirović
Nesim Tahirović (23 October 1941 – 14 August 2020) was a Bosnian painter. He studied art (painting) in Belgrade under professor Kosta Hakman.
Along with painting he also worked in the area of scenic design and other applied arts. During a f ...
(1941–2020), Bosnian painter
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Nesim Turan
Nesim Turan (born 2 March 1992) is a Turkish para table tennis player of class 4 and Paralympian.
In 2014, he won the gold medal in the Individual C4 event and silver medal along with his teammates Abdullah Öztürk and Ali Öztürk in the Te ...
(born 1992), Turkish Paralympian table tennis player
Women
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Naseem Begum
Naseem Begum (), (24 February 1936 – 29 September 1971) was a famous Pakistani film playback singer. She was known as ''The Tradegy Queen'' for singing sorrowful and downhearted songs in films.
She rose to prominence in the late 1950s, a ...
(1936–1971), Pakistani singer
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Naseem Banu
Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was an Indian actress. Starting her acting career in the mid-1930s she continued to act till mid-1950s. Her first film was '' Khoon Ka Khoon'' (Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Mo ...
(1916–2002), Indian cinema actress
* Naseem Hameed (born 1988), Pakistani athlete
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Naz Shah
Naseem Shah (; born 13 November 1973) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West since 2015. She served in the Opposition frontbench from 2018 to 2023, most recently as Shadow Minister for Cr ...
(born Naseem Shah; 1973), British Labour Party politician
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Nasim Pedrad
Nasim Pedrad (; born November 18, 1981) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy and variety series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2009 to 2014. She later went on to star in the Fox sitcoms '' Mulaney'' ( ...
(born 1981), Iranian-American actress and comedian
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Nasim Wali Khan
Begum Nasim Wali Khan Moor BiBi ( 1932 16 May 2021) was a female politician in Pakistan. Nasim Wali Khan was a
leader of Awami National Party–Wali. Nasim Wali Khan was the former provincial president and parliamentary leader of the Awami Nati ...
(1932–2021), Pakistani politician
* Nasim Zehra (born 1953), Pakistani journalist
Nacim Bismilla
''Oz'' is an American Prison film, prison Drama (film and television), drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by ...
, fictional character on the HBO drama ''Oz'', played by Ra Hanna
*Naseem Ali Khan, fictional character on the British drama ''
Indian Summers
''Indian Summers'' is a British drama television series that began airing on Channel 4 on 15 February 2015. The show details the events of summers spent at Simla (the summer capital of British India), in the foothills of the Himalayas, by a gro ...
'', played by Tanmay Dhanania
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Nasim (car)
The Ford Festiva is a four passenger, three-door, front-drive subcompact car manufactured in South Korea by Kia, under license from Mazda and marketed by Ford Motor Company, Ford for model years 1986–2002 over three generations in Japan, the Ame ...
Nassim al-Roh
''Nassim al-Roh'' () (''Breeze of the Soul'') is a Syrian drama film by director Abdellatif Abdelhamid
Abdellatif Abdelhamid (, 5 January 1954 – 15 May 2024) was a Syrian film director. His films have earned numerous awards, beginning with th ...
'', 1998 Syrian film
* Naseem Cup, Yemeni football competition, 2000–2003
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NASSIM
''NASSIM'' is a seventy five minute play (theatre), play by Nassim Soleimanpour that features new actors with no rehearsals performing each day, a format similar to Soleimanpour's prior play, ''White Rabbit Red Rabbit''. When the actor opens the se ...